"Peter Dimov" <pdimov@mmltd.net> writes:
That aside, FWIW I've found bjam relatively painless to use (once it's present). I didn't even need to specify an -sTOOLS option or run vcvars32.bat IIRC. For the scenario where one already has the headers up and running but doesn't want to "bjam install" the whole package, the main obstacle is figuring out which -sBUILD combination generates "library-sgd-mt-whatever" when autolinking kicks in.
Or can bjam figure these out automatically from the target name of "library-sgd-mt-whatever.lib"? It didn't occur to me to try it. ;-)
No, it can't. The presumption is that -SBUILD="..." specifications are higher level than sgd-mt-whatever abbreviated tag strings. Of course, -sBUILD is still pretty awful in v1. In v2 you just write, e.g. bjam threading=multi link=static <library-name> if you want to build a library with specific options. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com